Foraminifera taxon details
Arenagula Bourdon & Lys, 1955 †
890652 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:890652)
accepted
Genus
Arenagula globula Bourdon & Lys, 1955 † accepted as Arenagula kerfornei (Allix, 1922) † (type by original designation)
- Species Arenagula floridana (Cole, 1942) †
- Species Arenagula kerfornei (Allix, 1922) †
- Species Arenagula globula Bourdon & Lys, 1955 † accepted as Arenagula kerfornei (Allix, 1922) † (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Poignant (1964 and 2017 pers. com.))
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Bourdon, M.; Lys, M. (1955). Foraminifères du Stampien de la carrière de la Souys-Floirac (Gironde). <em>Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société géologique de France.</em> 336-338.
page(s): p. 336 [details]
page(s): p. 336 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Arenagula Bourdon & Lys, 1955 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=890652 on 2024-04-16
Date
action
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original description
Bourdon, M.; Lys, M. (1955). Foraminifères du Stampien de la carrière de la Souys-Floirac (Gironde). <em>Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société géologique de France.</em> 336-338.
page(s): p. 336 [details]
page(s): p. 336 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test large, about 1.25 mm in greatest breadth, chambers forming a low trochospiral coil, five chambers in the first whorl, later increasing in breadth and number as the whorl expands rapidly, spiral side convex, umbilical side flattened; wall agglutinated, canaliculate, may have incipient pillars projecting slightly from the septa; aperture valvuline in the early stage, later cribrate, consisting of large irregular openings scattered over a convex plate covering the umbilicus and final chamber face. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to Oligocene, ?Miocene; France; Greece; USA: Florida; Pacific: Marshall Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
